republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2021a/hb-21-1161.md

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Bill	Suspend Statewide Assessments For Select Grades	The act suspends the administration of state assessments, contingent on receiving a waiver of federal law from the federal department of education, for the following instructional areas and grade levels for the 2020-21 school year:Science for students enrolled in grades 5, 8, and 11;	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2021A	HB 21-1161	Colorado HB 21-1161 (2021A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Don Coram Emily Sirota Rachel Zenzinger	9	14	3	2021-03-03T07:00:00+00:00	2021-03-16T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/46349221-4647-4d7b-bb7e-d49e6a56dcb4	http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1161	ca6a5ae4b27282f6a659a86748278ee68f5e740fd1ac8c0ad4a0cb3e4f126d9f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado HB 21-1161 (2021A) — Suspend Statewide Assessments For Select Grades

The act suspends the administration of state assessments, contingent on receiving a waiver of federal law from the federal department of education, for the following instructional areas and grade levels for the 2020-21 school year:Science for students enrolled in grades 5, 8, and 11;

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (03/08/2021) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (03/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (03/03/2021) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (03/08/2021) (committee substitute) — source
6. Reengrossed (03/09/2021) (committee substitute) — source
7. Rerevised (03/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source
8. Revised (03/12/2021) (committee substitute) — source
9. Signed Act (03/16/2021) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• AMD — 16–47 (fail) · lower
• BILL — 30–2 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 51–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Don Coram — primary (person)
• Emily Sirota — primary (person)
• Rachel Zenzinger — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2021-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2021-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2021-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2021-03-16T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-12T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments
• 2021-03-12T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-11T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Education introduction
• 2021-03-09T07:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Committee
• 2021-03-08T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-03-05T07:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Education Refer Unamended to Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-03-03T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Education introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/46349221-4647-4d7b-bb7e-d49e6a56dcb4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).